Elementary City 1999, Paola Vigan PhD in Architectural and Urban - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Elementary City 1999, Paola Vigan PhD in Architectural and Urban Composition about_ associate professor of urbanism at the Institute of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of Venice began practice with partner, Bernardo Secchi, in
1999, Paola Viganò
PhD in Architectural and Urban Composition associate professor of urbanism at the Institute of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of Venice began practice with partner, Bernardo Secchi, in 1990
Territories of new modernity (2001) Extreme City (2010)
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Vigano adapts elementarism for architecture and urbanism from the work and writings of artist, Theo Van Doseberg:
Simultaneous Counter-Composition Theo Van Doseberg 1929
“Elementarism does not propose to arrive at a balanced re- lationship between things: ’Elementarism postulates a non- balanced counter composition as a phenomenon of a time space tension of colour, line or plane, always in opposition to the natural or architectural structure.’”
fragment/ detail deconstruction/ composition surveying/ naming urban strata/ traces complex/ simple urban materials
proposition of studying urbanism frequently meditates upon heterogeneity and discontinuity cities exist in a condition of fragmentation the city can be considered to be a sequence of urban fragments in the sense that serial music can be considered to be a sequence of tonal fragments the fragmentation of the modern city occurs randomly; though repeated, fjnite elements maintain their interrelation. elementarism requires oscillating analysis of two scales: the urban fragment and the detail
deconstruction as tool of elementarian analysis elementarism in urbanism is a process of survey that entails extremely close reading of the city deconstructing the banal, everyday and obvious landscape into the most fundamental of elements the city is illuminated as a place of difference and repetition
strategies of looking at the contemporary city that invest it with new possibilities for interpretation walking: form of deconstructing; naming objects and “breaking down the city into its elements” synecdoche- reduces and densifjes the city asyndeton- fragments the whole urban territory- practices, culture, ‘materiality’
stratigraphy- analysis of layers which build up over time to produce strata that are indicative of the conditions which created their deposition fragments within a given urban context may appear to lack relation however analysis of urban stratifjcation reveals hidden relationships “the degrees of consistency are only revealed insofar as they are taken apart”
simple materials- buildings, streets, paths, trees, sporting grounds, etc complex materials- path w/ trees, sports complex, street w/ drain, etc material analysis syntagmatic- function paradigmatic substance, construction urban grammar and syntax- create place by defjning a framework in which segments of urban materials and fragments can occur in sequences. systems- ensembles of urban fragments and segments connected by repeating features